nanming man

Chapter 225 Storming the City

Gao Yihuan prepared for another three days, waiting for a batch of equipment to be manufactured.

The Hongyi cannon is indeed a sharp weapon for demolition. Wengcheng in the northern city of Shouzhou is about to collapse under the bombardment of the past few days.

Although the Hongyi cannon did a lot of damage to the wall, the solid bullets did very little damage to the soldiers.

Liu Liangzuo has [-] soldiers in the city, and there are still young men in the city, so the defense force can be said to be sufficient.

Although Gao Yihuan has exhausted the defenders by driving the new attached battalion to attack Shouzhou in the past few days, but if the defenders cannot be dealt a huge blow, Shouzhou must be difficult to break through.

After the equipment was rushed out, Gao Yihuan was ready to formally attack the city, but before the attack, a letter of surrender that disintegrated the fighting spirit of the defenders was essential.

Under the city, nearly [-] peasants built eighteen earth slopes two feet high overnight. One of the broken slopes was slanted, just facing the city wall, and the other side was cut straight. The huge thing in front of him is a trebuchet.

The defenders on the city were quite puzzled by the sudden appearance of more than a dozen mounds outside the city. They were so far away and didn't know what to do.

The defenders fired a few shots and hit the slope. The shells were either bounced off the slope or smashed into a crater.

At this time, dozens of trebuchets were pulled to the back of the slope, and the defenders immediately realized that it was nothing new.

The artillery on the city fired several shots, but it had no effect. The gunner felt that it was boring, and stopped for fear of attracting counterattacks from the Hongyi cannons outside the city.

At this time, Gao Yihuan, Liu Heizi and others stood behind the catapult, watching several soldiers wrap letters of surrender one by one around a small stone with a thin rope, and then put them into the leather pockets on the catapult.

Liu Heizi looked at it, "Brother Gao, isn't it just a letter of surrender? Find a few people and shoot them into the city, and it's over. Do you need to build more than a dozen trebuchets?"

Gao Yihuan laughed but said nothing, thinking, "You know what a fart!"

At this time, [-] trebuchets were fired at the same time, and the cannon stones shot up, drew an arc, and smashed towards Shouzhou City.

The cannon stone fell to the ground, the string broke, and the city and the city were filled with white paper.

The soldiers guarding the city picked it up one after another to watch, and those who could read read it out.

At this moment, a general rushed up with a ferocious face and roared, "Hand over all the papers, and those who hide them will die!"

In the past few days, the Gao-Liu allied forces bombarded the city with artillery and soldiers sieged and harassed the city, which made Liu Liangzuo very tired and did not sleep well for more than ten days in a row.

On December [-]th, last night he was harassed by the coalition forces again, causing Liu Liangzuo to stay up all night, finally unable to resist, he handed over the defense to his son Liu Zehan and nephew Liu Zehong early in the morning, and then returned to the commander's mansion to take a rest.

As soon as he closed his eyes, when he was in a daze, he heard a voice outside the room saying: "Father handsome? Father handsome?"

The soldiers were pressing down on the city, and Liu Liangzuo's heart was always tense. He has been very sensitive recently. When he heard the sound, he immediately sat up from the bed, touched the big knife hanging on the wall, jumped up, and said in surprise: "Who is it?" ?”

"Father, I, Zehan!" A voice came from outside the room.

After hearing it clearly, Liu Liangzuo relaxed, sat back down, put his hand on his head, and put the knife aside, "What's the matter? Come in!"

Liu Zehan pushed the door open, handed a piece of paper to Liu Liangzuo, and said anxiously: "Father, the high-ranking thief has started to attack."

"Gongxin?" Liu Liangzuo was refreshed, and hurriedly brought it over to watch.

This is a letter written by Gao Yihuan to the soldiers and common people in the city. The content is very simple and can be understood by literacy.

He claimed that he had no enmity with the soldiers or the people in the city, and that the reason why he attacked Shouzhou was because Liu Liangzuo colluded with the Tartars. He couldn't bear to see the people in the city suffer, so he persuaded the defenders in the city to open the city and surrender.

For this reason, Gao Yihuan made a promise that as long as the city is opened, he promises not to kill. The first person to sacrifice the city will be rewarded with gold, silver and property, and the one who captures Liu Liangzuo will be rewarded with five hundred gold.

Liu Liangzuo was furious after seeing it, and quickly crumpled the piece of paper into a ball.

"The high-ranking thief didn't even recruit the commander-in-chief, it's unreasonable!"

Liu Zehan gritted his teeth and said: "Father commander, this is the high thief who knows that father commander is strong, but also hates father commander for cutting off his money, so he won't give us a way to survive."

Liu Liangzuo looked angry, "How many people read this letter? Are there any?"

Liu Zehan said: "The third brother is confiscating them in the city, and they have already been confiscated."

Liu Liangzuo held the letter in his hand, pondered for a while with a sullen face, and then said: "Zehan, the high thief has exhausted us for more than ten days with a feint attack, and now he is starting to shake our army's morale again. I predict that he will attack the city soon. Ma Shiying and Huang Chuangzi are still there?"

Gao Yihuan's troops were not enough to besiege the city, so he could only send a small number of troops to monitor outside the city. Shouzhou's connection with the outside world was not cut off.

"Father commander, you have sent three groups of people out of the city. When they heard that they were fighting against a high-ranking bandit, they all panicked. Ma Shiying finally gave an order to ask the various ministries to help us out of the siege, but he shrank himself in Fengyang, and the others Naturally, they will not move. Huang Degong sent two thousand soldiers to Hefei, and there was no movement. The people in Xuzhou, let alone the people. Now the whole Nanzhi people have spread, saying that the bandits who killed Tartars in Shandong Father-in-law has an affair with the Tartars, so if they want to start a war with us, they don't want to get into this muddy water!"

Liu Liangzuo was a little stunned. He knew that his character was not very good, but after all, he was an officer of the Ming Dynasty, and no one from the surrounding friendly forces rescued him. This was too much of a failure.

"The Ming Dynasty's army is over!" Liu Liangzuo was heartbroken, "One Gao Yihuan scares them like this. Is the reputation of a high thief so loud?"

"Father, Gao Yihuan has been running very fast recently. It is said that Zuo Liangyu in Xiangyang was beaten away by him." Liu Zehan said, "I think Huang Chuangzi and Ma Shiying are not afraid of Gao Yihuan, but they just don't want to cause trouble for us. They Not coming here now, one is because of the things in Shandong. Gao Bandit killed two thousand Tartars in the first battle, beheaded Li Sutai and Bier Tahar, and his combat power is naturally not weak. Second, now I heard that he defeated Zuo Liang Yu seized Xiangyang, and even fought a battle with Xiao Yuchi, a subordinate of the western thief, so we all know that the high thief is not easy to mess with. Third, the high thief has not yet started to formally attack the city, and we have not spent our own efforts to consume the high thief. Others will naturally wait and see Don't move forward, don't want to work hard for us and Gao Yihuan."

These few reasons make sense, but in the final analysis, it is that his character is too bad, he always rubs off on other people's achievements, and even fights with others.

This time, no one else would come to rescue him from the very beginning. He didn't go all out, and fought with Gao Yihuan for a while, which almost consumed Gao Yihuan. He was surrounded by masters who could nest in Xuzhou for half a year.

Thinking of this, Liu Liangzuo's expression became serious, and he put his hand on Liu Zehan's shoulder, "Zehan, are you afraid?"

"Father, if Gao Yihuan wants to kill us, I'm afraid he will too!"

Liu Liangzuo patted Liu Zehan on the shoulder heavily and said: "Zehan, don't worry, you have fought for your father for many years, and you have eaten more salt than the high thief. The high thief wants to fight me, but he is still tender." Some, this time as a father, he must be beaten to death."

After this episode, Liu Liangzuo lost his sleepiness, "Let's go, before the high-ranking thief attacks the city, let's go to the city to arrange defense matters."

After the two of them left the commander's mansion, a soldier told them that bandits outside the city were gathering, and they seemed to be preparing to attack the city.

Liu Liangzuo hurriedly came to the city and led a group of generals to check the enemy's situation.

(End of this chapter)